Syndicate: MMF '98 - extended deadline

[Inke Arns <inke@berlin.snafu.de>]

Dear all,

I just received a 'Call for artists' for the MuuMediaFestival '98 by snail
mail. This info is taken from the web site <http://www.av-arkki.fi/mmf>.
So, if you are both "innovative" and "challenging", contact: <mmf@av-arkki.fi>

Best wishes,

Inke

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MuuMediaFestival'98, the annual Nordic media arts festival, celebrates its
10th anniversary, October 9.-18.1998, in Helsinki at the Kiasma Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Otso Gallery and the Cable Gallery.  Site-specific
projects will extend across the Helsinki cityscape.

 MuuMediaFestival'98 is organized by AV-ARKKI in collaboration with the
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and Gallery Otso, Espoo
AV-ARKKI archives, distributes and promotes Finnish media art.


CALL FOR ARTISTS
We invite submissions from artists to an international MMF'98 program: 

                      -  "Mobile Zones - Interactions in Urban Spaces" 
                        (installations, projects etc.) SEE BELOW
                       - juried exhibition of international multimedia art 
                        (cd-roms, websites etc.)
                       - juried screenings of international video art and
                        experimental film

We especially look forward to receiving works that address the special
theme of MMF'98: "Global & Indigenous". SEE BELOW

The deadline for entries to MMF'98 is 15.05.1998.

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"MOBILE ZONES - Interactions in Urban Spaces"

"Mobile Zones - Interactions in Urban Spaces" is a series of up to 6
separate projects that will rethink the cultural idea of the city in
relation to contemporary electronic landscapes, elaborating and augmenting
the meaning of urban space. 

                        public spaces in the Internet and their metaphors
                        virtual communities
                        the city as a metaphor
                        boundaries of the self: aliases and fictional
                        identities
                        communities, networks and their structures
                        surveillance and control
                        non-spaces
                        abuse of space, (para)sites
                        shared or personal histories
                        boundaries between physical and virtual
                        spaces,
                        event design
                        transient communities
                        the festival as metaphor
                        channels through time and geography

                    We look forward to receiving: 

                        Completed work (websites, installations, tapes etc.)
                        Process oriented work (events, processes,
                        constructions etc.)
                        MMF'98 Party Artwork (event, installation etc.)

A number of residencies are available for projects requiring preparation in
Helsinki.

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"GLOBAL & INDIGENOUS"

MMF'98 special focus "Global & Indigenous" addresses contemporary issues of
globalization, indigenous culture, power and networked information: 

                        social, cultural and economic realities
                        increasing capital and information flow
                        networks outside regulative control
                        dominant techno-optimist ideologies
                        forces structuring globalization
                        occupancy and conditions of access
                        networks in developing countries
                        access and visibility for indigenous cultures
                        emergence of networked media spaces
                        political activism and civil disobedience
                        media art relations to TV and film
                        grassroots politics, networks and subcultures
                        contemporary geography of media culture 

We look forward to presenting media art that is both innovative and
challenging.

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e-mail contact is: <mmf@av-arkki.fi>

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